HC rejects MLA’s plea against petition challenging his election

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high Court has rejected an interlocutory application filed by KR Puram MLA BA Basavaraja wherein he had sought the dismissal of an election petition filed against him. Dismissing the IA, justice Ravi Malimath noted that a trial has to be conducted to decide the issues raised in the election petition filed by defeated JDS candidate DA Gopala. The next hearing the election petition is fixed for December 17.

In his election petition, Gopala had sought for setting aside Basavaraja’s election on the ground of non- disclosure of assets and a criminal case. However, seeking the dismissal of the election petition, Basavaraja had contended that inadvertently certain information were left out and on those grounds his election as MLA to the state assembly in May this year cannot be set aside.